Here is a collection of famous Thatcher words, phrases and policies about her or created by her:

Thatcherism: A term used to describe her own brand of economic policy — controlling inflation, forgetting unemployment and letting the free market reign.

Privatization: This word more commonly entered the modern lexicon after Thatcher sold off major British assets such as BP and public utilities.

Belgian Empire: What she called the European Commission, something she shunned. She fiercely believed in British sovereignty.

Handbagging: People who crossed Thatcher would receive a “handbagging,” a term critics used to describe how she could publicly dress down a foe, like being publicly whacked with one of her trademark black handbags.

Poll tax: A flat tax imposed first in Scotland in 1989, then in England and Wales in 1990. The proper name for the scheme was a community charge. Riots ensued. The implementation of this widely unpopular tax caused social unrest and is said to have led to her downfall.

Milk snatcher: When she was education secretary and needed to make savings in the system, she cut out free milk to school children aged 7 to 11. The name “milk snatcher” dogged the prime minister throughout her career.

Wets: The wets is what she called the Tory-lefts inside her own cabinet.

U-Turn: This derived from her comment, “You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.”

Big bang: Enacted in 1986, a collection of reform measures in London’s financial sector that deregulated the markets.

Defeat: “I do not recognize the meaning of the word,” the sentence she spoke when she was told Britain would not win a war in the Falklands.

GERBIL: In 1987, the Great Education Reform Bill set up an education standards watchdog, school inspections. Schools could also exit out of local education authorities.